*This is a contract position at 20 hours a week*

Imagine a community of students taking action toward their dreams and living happier lives. In this world, people are so fulfilled they reach out and positively contribute to the lives of others. That’s who we impact, and that’s what we are building. Want to be a part of it?

To determine whether you'd be a good fit, ask yourself…

• Would you like to go to work each day knowing that you are using your talents to help others and better the world?

• Are you inspired by the thought of positively impacting tens of thousands of students each year?

• Are you ready to work in an organization that is rapidly growing and embraces change?

• Would you like to work with people whom you respect and can learn from every day?

• Do you desire to work for an organization that cares about your growth, where your own drive and interests help you create your own future?

Our guiding question is: “Are we helping the greatest number of people in the greatest possible way?" Are you inspired? Let’s change the world together.

Overview:
The AWS Dev Ops Engineer is a contract position at 20 hours a week and will join a team of 100+ purpose-driven staff members in a friendly, focused, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) is the largest leadership honor society in the United States, with over 700 chapters and more than 1.5 million members.

The 20 hour a week contract AWS Dev Ops Engineer will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and managing a cloud-based platform infrastructure to enable the delivery of multiple application services. This position will report directly to our Director of Technology and will partner closely in order to maintain current levels of support and production while exploring opportunities for further technical developments.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the design, planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure

• Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems

• Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies

• Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services

• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions

• Stay current with new technology options and vendor products, evaluating which ones would be a good fit for the company

• Design and implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

• Implement monitoring and alerting systems

• Recommend process and architecture improvements

• Troubleshoot the system and solve problems across all platform and application domains

• Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company’s services and products

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or related field preferred

• 5+ years of cloud service management, 4+ using AWS

• Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, CloudWatch and CloudFormation.

• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications

• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration

• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube

• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as RabbitMQ, Redis, and MySQL

• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus

• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform

• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)

• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems

• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages

• The ability to be a team player

• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

The National Society of Leadership and Success is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Visit www.nsls.org to learn more about our organization.